Markie in Milwaukee

Every time, that's up over here on the wall.

That I come over and look at every once in a while.

It's time to,

just go ahead and let go and it's good to let go sometimes.

There's a couple of them in here.

And we'll get rid of that one too.

I don't want to be reminded of,

of the long hair and what have you,

so I thought I'd just go ahead and end the era,

running that through the shredder right here

and getting rid of it.

You have reached Sharon Wenzel.

Hi, it's Mark calling from Milwaukee.

Listen, I'm just calling you,

I know I haven't talked, we haven't spoken in a while,

and I just wanted to leave a message,

and just wanted to let you know my, saga is over.

Many of you really don't know much about Mark,

you just know Mark as the tall guy in the church,

and uh, and uh, got saved in college,

and I'll let him share that with you

but God's taken him down a very, I should say,

he has gone down a very interesting road.

And God has picked him up

and set his feet back onto solid rock.

How you doing, Mark?

Well, sir.

Did you enjoy the services today?

I did.

Good.

It's good to see you.

My name's Mark Wenzel,

I'm a giant among men, a guy you gotta really look up at.

A real spiritual giant.

And I'd like to introduce you to my wife,

please stand up please.

This is Missus Sharon,

and we're with the Children's Gospel Club

of Greeneville, South Carolina.

You say he doesn't know much about me.

Well, I'm an old-fashioned, independent,

fundamental, pre-millennial, temperamental,

Baptist preacher,

and just love God and the King James version of the Bible.

Praise the Lord, you're going to heaven.

Had one here earlier, but I don't know where it went.

All right, "Markie in Milwaukee,"

no more secrets, the introduction.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

I'm writing this book for my children and my grandchildren,

so they will have an accurate accounting of my life.

I wouldn't want them to know

the truth about my life

and why my life

had to be the way it was.

How are you Mary?

Hi Markie.

Lindsay, how are you?

I'm doing pretty well.

Nice to see you.

Thank you, it's good to see you.

You've been behaving yourself?

Behaving?

I try.

Thank you.

Only got your first name.

That's okay, it's all we actually need.

Yeah.

How many names does one person need anyway?

One.

Happy coming out day.

You too.

I started thinking this afternoon

about all the different times

that I've had the opportunity to come out being me.

This is basically my outline, I'm not gonna read it to you,

but it is really important

that I do speak from my heart tonight

in for short time I have available,

and just wanna tell you right now that, my...

Good to have you.

My relationship with almighty God

is the cornerstone of my life through Jesus Christ.

If I did not have that relationship

none of this other stuff in my life makes any sense

and I couldn't have gone forward,

especially through transition as difficult as it was.

I'll say this, that for me

it was absolutely 100% needful,

and it was a life and death proposition,

that's where I'll stand,

but I'll tell you this much, I'm here so I chose life.

Okay, welcome to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

What an absolutely gorgeous morning.

Well hi, here I am.

And just wanted to say, we keep going forward,

keep growing, lots of goals and objectives

to be obtained in the course of the next year or so.

Hi I'm Markie Anna, I'm a transgendered woman.

I'm a woman trapped in the wrong body.

Gender Identity Disorder is a disorder

that usually is realized in early childhood.

In fact one is born with it.

There was an increased desire

to change the physical appearance of my whole body.

Hormonal treatment has begun,

and a gender reassignment surgery is being sought.

Man can run for year after year

until he realizes that he is running from himself.

And he's got to turn, and fight,

and hold his head high and walk tall

even as he transitions

and becomes physically and legally female.

Hello and welcome.

Highlight the different categories

then press the okay button.

Here we go.

Five four three

two one.

Recently one of my favorite people,

one of my heroes, passed away.

Her name was Sandy Allen,

and she was the world's tallest woman.

The Guinness Museum of World Records

is proud to present a special live appearance

with Sandy Allen, the worlds tallest woman!

I'm very proud of my size, I'm different.

I'm seven feet seven and a quarter inches tall

and I'm proud of every inch of it.

In her earlier years she'd travel

and speak to children in schools.

And one of her main themes was,

that it's okay to be different.

You shouldn't make fun of other people that are different,

because, they have feelings too.

So most of my life,

or all of my life, I have,

I have been tall and I have been larger,

and quite a few issues with people that can't accept that.

I was interested, and was always interested

in the opportunity to chronicle my progress.

And what I'd looked like at any given point.

And, that's where we started, on a public basis.

However sometimes we looked beautiful.

And those must have been recent as opposed to the other,

and there's a major difference there

as far as facial structures, and color and hairstyle.

Now some of these little ones,

these snapshots from the

things in the mall, those machines.

Didn't have any other way to do it,

just to note the changes.

Various Wigs, various looks,

various glasses.

And this one, this one's Merry Christmas

was right after my separation.

And again this is a lot of stuff just to keep me going,

and to have my head catch up with my heart.

This picture right here, is of me,

in one of my last appearances as the Incredible Hulk.

Yes indeed, change can happen,

and even the most dreadful monster,

such as the Green Hulk,

can change into the most delicate flower.

This says, "Family Christmas," but I'm not sure what it is.

That's my daughter right there, Christina.

And to be honest with you,

I really don't think I've ever seen this stuff before,

or even had the opportunity to plug it in and watch.

That's me.

And my sister and my mother.

And that's my kid Daniel.

Do you, do you have any plans to try to

reconnect with your kids?

What I'd really love to do is one day for that to happen.

That is my intention.

Now that were sitting in my office, and we're safe,

and got an understanding of what's going on here

and so forth, and I feel real comfortable.

I'd really like that, especially as we get on in years,

they are at this point, 20 and 19, and 17.

The youngest just turned 17 on Saturday.

Getting to the point where, going to college,

getting to the point, working.

The oldest has had a steady girlfriend,

I'm not sure if that relationship is still ongoing.

However, that's been going on for a while.

Maybe they get married,

and the next thing you know,

they start having children.

I'd love to be a grandparent,

be a part of that process.

And maybe one day, maybe one day it would be possible.

I'd like that.

And

they took off out of here on June the,

believe it was the 6th of 2005.

I haven't seen them since,

except last summer when we went to do

our legal separation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.